Water waving comb



June 23, 1925.

E. c. JOYCE WATER WAVING COMB Filed Nov. '1, 1924 INVENTOR:

ATTORNEY.

Patented June 23, 1925e UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMA C. JOYCE, OF RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK.

WATER WAVIN G COMIB.

Application filed November 1, 1924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA C. JOYCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond Hill, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVater Vaving Combs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combs and more particularly to what I term a novel and improved water waving comb whereby the artificial hair waves may be retained when the hair is wet during the water waving process.

In the practice of waving hair by the wet method, considerable difliculty has been experienced in retaining the artificial waves formed until the hair is dry. The operator produces the artificial waves at predetermined distances and very often the hair becomes disarranged before it is dry. My invention, therefore, is to overcome the above difficulty by producing a comb which will retain the artificial waves until at such time as the hair is dry and the combs may be removed.

In order to more fully understand and appreciate my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings showing a preferred embodiment thereof and wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of my combs to the hair.

Figure 2 is a detailed view of the comb and the hair retaining bar.

Referring now to the drawings wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 5 designates the top of a comb having the comb teeth 6 arranged in the usual manner. The ends of the comb proper are formed with hook-shaped members 7, 8, preferably of the same material as the comb proper, said members being bent upwardly from the front face of the comb abovereferred to. A fiat, resilient hair retaining bar 9, which may also be of the same mate rial as the comb itself, or if so desired, may be of thin metal or other resilient material and is adapted to cooperate with the comb to retain the wave in a certain position until the hair is dry. It will be observed that the bar 9 is somewhat longer than the comb so that the ends 10 of the bar may be en Serial No. 747,205.

gaged beneath the hook-shaped members 7, 8, above referred to.

In the actual use of the comb above described, the bar 9 is first positioned at the desired position formed in the hair and the comb is then inserted through the hair until the hookshaped elements 7, 8, abut the ends of the bar 9. In this manner it will be seen that the hair will be retained in its proper position until the hair is dry and the comb may then be removed with the result that the hair remains as originally formed. If so desired, a plurality of such combs may be used and worn after the hair is dry since the comb and the bar 9 is to a certain extent concealed. If the hair is dried quickly, however, as by the air of an artificial blower, the operator may advance the comb or combs from one hair wave to another while the work is progressing so that when the hair waving is completed, the respective waves Will be retained Where originally 5 formed.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with'some degree of particularity,

I realize that in practice various alterations therein may be made. I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a comb body having teeth projecting therefrom, a resilient clamping bar, said body having upwardly extending,

hooked ends adapted to engage the ends of the clamping bar when positioned in the hair.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a single comb body having teeth projecting therefrom, a narrow, re-

silient clamping bar, open, hooked ends bent upwardly over said body and adapted to loosely engage the ends of the clamping bar when positioned in the hair.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EMMA C. JOYCE. [L. s] 

